I just heard that people in Iceland were salivating to get flatscreen TVs last year and now they are all out fishing. I guess there is a silver lining to the economy tanking. <\/p>\n
I envisioned what would happen to us if we lost our jobs – about us getting an Airstream and pulling it behind the truck and I thought about the dogs, the cat, and the baby and us all just wandering through the country working as short order cooks or cocktail waitresses to get by. <\/p>\n
I thought about being fearful of the future and how it erodes today. <\/p>\n
Then I thought of myself in yoga today when I was able for the first time to support myself in pigeon pose because I told myself I could fly. I looked up and Michele was smiling and I was smiling and I felt like I had broken new ground. <\/p>\n
In my last entry I wrote abortion<\/em> instead of adoption<\/em> and two people caught me on it – it was because I had received an email from a friend who wrote: “I’m sorry about the aborted adoption” – which I thought was an interesting way to phrase it. It actually felt like a miscarriage since we were two months away from her being born – but today I decided to think of it this way: seven months pregnant is the closest I have gotten to having a baby in almost 50 years, so s\/he must be just around the corner. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just heard that people in Iceland were salivating to get flatscreen TVs last year and now they are all out fishing. I guess there is a silver lining to the economy tanking. I envisioned what would happen to us if we lost our jobs – about us getting an Airstream and pulling it behind the truck and I thought about the dogs, the cat, and the baby and us all just wandering through the… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-YN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}